Wend von Wietersheim

Wend von Wietersheim (18 April 1900-19 September 1975) was a General of Nazi Germany who led the 113th Panzergrenadier Regiment during World War II.

Biography
Wend von Wietersheim was born on 18 April 1900 in Neuland, Silesia, German Empire. He served in World War I before joining the Freikorps paramilitary, and he was one of the 4,000 Imperial German Army officers retained by the contained Reichswehr military of the Weimar Republic. Given various commands within the 1st Panzer Division during World War II, Wietersheim served in the Invasion of Poland and Operation Barbarossa before fighting against the United States in Operation Dragoon in southern France in August-September 1944. Wietersheim surrendered to America in May 1945 at Vseruby in Czechoslovakia, and he died in 1975 at the age of 75.